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Security & Privacy Award

Every year, SURF presents the Security & Privacy Award as a token of appreciation for contributing to keeping or making our sector safe, open, accessible, privacy-friendly and trustworthy. On this page, you can read about previous winners.

Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame features the winners of all editions of the Security & Privacy Award. The winner is carefully chosen by a jury consisting of security and privacy professionals. They based their choice on nominations submitted by people working in education and research.

Winner 2025

Ewald Beekman SPC Award

Ewald Beekman, IT Security Officer at Amsterdam UMC, has won the SURF Security & Privacy Award 2025 for his years of commitment as chair of SCIRT, the SURF Community of Incident Response Teams.

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Winner 2024

Wim Biemolt overhandigt de SURF Security & Privacy Award 2024 aan Martijn Bijleveld

Martijn Bijleveld, cyber security programme manager at MBO Digitaal, won the SURF Security & Privacy Award 2024 for his extraordinary commitment to the MBO Cyber Security programme.

Previous winners

  • Stijn Hoogervorst (2023)
  • National Cyber Security Centre (2022)
  • Maastricht University (2021)
  • Jeffry Sleddens (2020)

Nomination form for the SURF Security & Privacy Award

Do you know someone in mbo, hbo, wo who deserves this award? As soon as the form for a new award round opens, you will find it here!

Rules of play for Security & Privacy Award nomination
  • You may nominate anyone, regardless of position, as long as they work in education and research (a member of SURF). This could be a colleague, someone from another institution - or even yourself!
  • The award is for an individual, not a team. Want to honour a team? Then nominate a key figure on behalf of the team, initiative or organisation in education and research.
  • A professional jury will evaluate all submitted nominations based on the information in the form. So make sure your submission is complete and include relevant links.
  • All nominees will receive a message from SURF, informing them that they have been nominated and asking if they agree with their nomination.

The deadline for submitting a nomination was 25 April 2025.